html.elements.datalist - Browser compatibility chart missing display issue with firefox
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Description
What type of issue is this?
issue in documentation for the page https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist#browser_compatibility
What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?
chromium based browsers will render
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whereas firefox alone will only render
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the documentation should reflect this browser specific display difference
What browsers does this problem apply to, if applicable?
Firefox
What did you expect to see?
a similar or identical display as chrome, edge, opera safari
Did you test this? If so, how?
issue discovered on a client website, testing on multiple browsers found a firefox specific issue
Can you link to any release notes, bugs, pull requests, or MDN pages related to this?
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Do you have anything more you want to share?
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MDN URL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/datalist
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html.elements.datalist - Report started: 2024-03-18T17:06:17.162Z
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the MDN datalist page's Browser compatibility section and verify the reported rendering difference in Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. Trace that page to the corresponding browser-compatibility data entry, then update the documented Firefox-specific behavior and confirm the chart renders the distinction accurately.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100